"Life without freedom is not life."
Based on the true story of brothers Josef and Ctirad Mašín who, in 1953, tried to escape communist Czechoslovakia to join the US army in West Berlin.
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The people behind it
Oskar Hes
Josef Mašín
Jan Nedbal
Ctirad (Radek) Mašín
Tatiana Dyková
Zdena Mašínová
Matěj Hádek
Zbyněk Roušar
Adam Ernest
Milan Paumer
Matyáš Řezníček
Václav Švéda
Antonín Mašek
Zbyněk Janata
Alžběta Malá
Veronika Bellová
Karolína Lea Nováková
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